|Question 11Verbal

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"The Monster" is an 1898 story by Stephen Crane. In the story, the character of Jim, a young boy, is playing in his yard while his father mows the lawn; while playing, Jim accidentally damages a peony (a flower). Crane emphasizes Jim's energy and his distracted absorption in his play by writing, ______
Which quotation from "The Monster" most effectively illustrates the claim?
"[Jim] went on to the lawn, very slowly, and kicking wretchedly at the turf. Presently his father came along with the whirring machine, while the sweet, new grass blades spun from the knives."
A
"Jim could do no reparation. He looked again towards his father."
B
"[W]hen [Jim] swung around the curve at the flower-bed, a wheel of his cart destroyed a peony."
C
"Little Jim was, for the time, engine Number 36, and he was making the run between Syracuse and Rochester. He was fourteen minutes behind time, and the throttle was wide open."
D